Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers

Despite the dark clouds that loomed overhead throughout Saturday evening, a light and brief rainfall was the extent of the waterworks over Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers brought a deluge of their own, however: the type of offensive downpour that had eluded them all week long. The Dodgers got back into the win column with a resounding 12-4 victory over the Cubs on Saturday evening, putting an end to Chicago's MLB-best 10-game winning streak and setting up a rubber game in Sunday's series finale. Individual slumps came to an end as the Dodgers hit their way out of a team-wide scuffle. Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a single to end an 0-for-12 stretch. Teoscar Hernández had been in an 0-for-13 rut. Andy Pages started the season as the Dodgers' hottest hitter but had gone seven games without driving in a run. A Dodgers team capable of doing plenty of damage with the long ball got only one of those in the rout of the Cubs, Max Muncy's ninth homer of the season. Instead, they relied more on small ball, with every hitter in the starting lineup recording at least one hit and scoring at least one run. "We all love home runs. But sort of a hallmark for our club is stress, and continuing to put pressure on the opposing pitchers," manager Dave Roberts said. "You look at the last week, we really haven’t done that. We might’ve scored three in one inning, and then nothing happens after that. But continuing to apply pressure is kind of what we typically do. And we did that tonight.”